Orchards near Canterbury, CT

Pomfret Center

Lapsley Orchard has grown food on its 200 acres in Pomfret Center since colonial days, with land tied to Israel Putnam's 1750 purchase. The farm runs pick-your-own apples, blueberries, and pumpkins plus cut-your-own flowers, and its retail stand sells cider, maple products, honey, baked goods, and jams from fruit and vegetables grown on site.

Chaplin

Shashok's Orchard on Route 6 in Chaplin is a pick-your-own operation for apples, peaches, and pumpkins. It's a straightforward roadside orchard rather than an event destination — bring a bag and expect to do your own picking. Call ahead, since hours follow the ripening of each crop.

Ashford

Horse Listener's Orchard farms 153 acres in Ashford as both a CSA and a pick-your-own operation. Apples, peaches, tomatoes, blueberries, and other vegetables come off the same ground through the season, available either by CSA share or by picking your own in the field. Call ahead for what's currently ready — availability shifts fast with weather during peak season.

Ashford

Dayville

DeFazio Orchard and Greenhouses is a family-owned farm growing apples and peaches for pick-your-own picking, plus fresh vegetables and flowers. Free wagon rides run around the property during harvest, making it a family outing spot in Windham County. Open seven days a week, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

East Killingly

Palazzi Orchard, run by Mark and Jean Palazzi, is a pick-your-own orchard open daily 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. from August through November or December. Free weekend hayrides run through harvest season, and the farm sells at the Danielson farmers market on Saturdays and the Putnam market on Mondays and Thursdays.

Dayville

Palazzi Orchard sells fresh-picked asparagus, vegetable plants, herb plants, perennials, and herbal teas from its North Road stand in Dayville, and takes part in a CSA program. The family also runs a second stand on Mashentuck Road in Danielson on Tuesdays and sets up at the Danielson Farmers Market Saturday mornings at Killingly Library.

Woodstock

Woodstock Orchards grows more than 20 apple varieties on Route 169, along with blueberries, peaches, and pumpkins, all picked on site. The bakery opens at 6:30 a.m. daily for cider donuts and pies; the retail store runs until 6 p.m. Beyond pick-your-own apples and blueberries, the farm bottles an award-winning hot sauce and sells it alongside the produce.

Gales Ferry

Eastford

Buell's Orchard has farmed the same ground on Crystal Pond Road in Eastford since 1889, now pick-your-own for strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apples, and pumpkins alongside a farm market selling sweet corn and other local produce. The farm closes out the season with an annual Harvest Festival on Columbus Day weekend and a Trunk or Treat the last Sunday of October. No pets allowed on the grounds.

Lebanon

West Green Farm combines an orchard with a working dairy in Lebanon, a farming town in New London County's interior.

Eastford

Woodstock

High Springs Orchard runs pick-your-own blueberries, peaches, and apples from July through mid-October, and its country store sells farm vegetables, jams, jellies, cider, and Grandma Miller pies year-round. The Dividend Road orchard is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., June through December.

Coventry

Gales Ferry

Holmberg Orchards grows native fruit and vegetables on Orchard Lane and turns part of the harvest into its own wines and hard ciders, alongside an in-house bakery and specialty food shop. Pick-your-own runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, and the year-round farm market is open daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Glocester

Tolland

Wright's Orchard sits on South River Road in Tolland, where visitors pick apples, blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins, and flowers straight from the fields, or buy them already picked at the stand. The farm keeps shorter fall hours — Thursday through Tuesday, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., with Sunday starting at 1 — and stays open into December for pumpkins and late-season stock.

North Scituate

North Scituate

Harrisville

North Scituate

Glocester

E. Douglas

Douglas Orchard & Farm grows pick-your-own blueberries and apples alongside no-spray vegetables, herbs, and raw honey from its own hives. The Socrat family bought the old Douglas Orchard in 2016 and built out a country store stocked with maple syrup, goat cheese, beeswax goods, and farm-raised pork and chicken. Visitors can walk the grounds to see the animals, play cornhole, or catch live music at the pavilion. Open Thursday through Sunday, 8am to 4pm.

Smithfield

Cranston

Greenville

Greenville

Cranston

Johnston

Slatersville